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The Diarists

The Essay

Diaries are one of our oldest literary traditions, combining private confession and public display. This series explores five diarists of the past through the lens of the present.

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  • Death in Trieste

    A 1760s murder still informs ideas about aesthetics, a certain sort of sex, and death.

  • Watch: My Deaf World

    Five compelling experiences of what it is like to be deaf in 21st-century Britain.

  • Five figures from the arts and science introduce books that changed their lives and work.

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